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Website. www.watpho.com. Wat Pho ( Thai: วัดโพธิ์, pronounced [wát pʰōː] ⓘ ), also spelled Wat Po, is a Buddhist temple complex in the Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok, Thailand. It is on Rattanakosin Island, directly south of the Grand Palace. [ 2 ] Known also as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, its official name is Wat ...
hcmc-museum .edu .vn. Museum of Ho Chi Minh City ( Vietnamese: Bảo tàng Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh ), formerly known as Gia Long Palace ( Vietnamese: Dinh Gia Long ), is a historical site and museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [ 1][ 2] The museum is situated at the corner of Lý Tự Trọng and Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa streets, located on ...
44784. Website. www .phoenix .gov. Phoenix ( / ˈfiːnɪks / ⓘ FEE-niks[ 8 ][ 9 ]) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. [ 10 ] It is the fifth-most populous city in the United States and the most populous state capital in the country.
The "ranch" in 99 Ranch means freshness (“as if straight from a ranch,” Alice says) and the "99," in Mandarin Chinese pronounced jiu jiu,is a homophone for longevity. “The double meaning is 99%.
The new palace was built on a rectangular piece of land on the very west side of the island, between Wat Pho to the south, Wat Mahathat to the north and with the Chao Phraya River on the west. This location was previously occupied by a Chinese community , whom King Rama I ordered to relocate to an area south and outside of the city walls; the ...
The city's walls form a rectangle about 2 km (1.2 mi) east-west by 1.6 km (0.99 mi) north-south. There are 193 ruins on 70 km 2 (27 sq mi) of land. There is a gate in the centre of each wall. Inside are the remains of the royal palace and twenty-six temples, the largest being Wat Mahathat.
The Independence Palace ( Vietnamese: Dinh Độc Lập ), also publicly known as the Reunification Convention Hall ( Vietnamese: Hội trường Thống Nhất ), is a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon), Vietnam. It was designed by architect Ngô Viết Thụ and was the home and workplace of the president of the Republic ...
Chinese Cultural Center. The Chinese Cultural Center ( Chinese : 鳳凰城中國文化中心 ), now the Outlier Center, was a Chinese-themed retail complex in Phoenix, Arizona. It was developed in 1997 by BNU Corporation, a subsidiary of COFCO, a Chinese state-run enterprise and the country's largest food processor, manufacturer and trader. [1]